Kidd v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Willis

Affirming.

Joe Kidd shot and killed Major Hatfield. The grand jury returned an indictment for murder against Kidd, upon which he was convicted of manslaughter, and condemned to serve a sentence of 20 years and 1 day in the state prison. He has prosecuted an appeal to this court, insisting that the trial court erred in several particulars, which will be stated and determined in the course of the opinion.

A motion to quash the indictment was orally submitted to the court and overruled. The basis of the motion, as stated by appellant’s counsel, was that the…